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[jeanpolfus]

Arctic tern (Sterna paradisaea). Find more of my wildlife line drawings on my etsy shop: www.etsy.com/shop/WildLinesStudio

[oosik]

jeanpolfus replied to your photoset:Graupel Today I woke up to a thin layer...

wow! I can’t believe you don’t have snow yet.

It is somewhat irregular, but not unheard of. I have heard of one year, possibly in the 90s, where there was no snow in Anchorage until Christmas. But also from what I've been told, in the 80s, everyone could expect to be walking around in a Halloween costume in the snow.

ravenstolethesun?

[gillyffish]

Thanks so much! You are now entered in the giveaway. Thank you for your support on tumblr - I really appreciate it!

I really look forward to your photos. I'm hoping to get up there one day to see it all in person.

[icanwonder]

jeanpolfus said:

What does it mess up?

The new stretched image layout has made it so that gifs and images that are sized to fit Tumblr's 500px wide layout are now 540px wide, making them blurry. The same applies to gif sets or image sets. Most users resize images and gifs on two-column sets for Tumblr's 245px wide layout, but because of the new layout, are being stretched to 268px wide, losing their quality. :\

[oosik]

jeanpolfus replied to your post: On Monday I’ll be heading to Nuiqsut f...

Believe me I’ve had my fair share of “lectures” as a white-female doing traditional knowledge work in the Northwest Territories.

Ok. I stand corrected. And as we later discussed, there are disadvantages and perks for each gender: Males likely get more of a hard time initially, but once the initial "formalities" are dealt with, they are much more likely to be asked to accompany hunters on their subsistence trips. 

Unfortunately I'll only be there for a work week and will probably not have much free time to go exploring with people. I'll just have to stick to the village.

[lifelongwandering]

Really?! That is so cool! I was just at Holiday Acres for a watercolor painting class earlier this week. The colors were beautiful! Were you able to get up north this fall?

Unfortunately I won't be back up north/home for another two weeks. But at least I'm enjoying peak color around the milwaukee area.

[oosik]

What to do with raspberries:

thespineanditstingle answered: food52.com/recipes…

That actually doesn't look too difficult. I'd probably find a way to mess it up, but it also looks like it doesn't use too many berries if I wanted to give it a try. 

jeanpolfus answered: Put on ice cream!

You know the way to my heart! I sent a similar pic to a friend and she send me a pic of vanilla ice cream. This will happen.

thejunglenook answered: Add nutella and eat until chocolaty fruity goodness exudes from your very pores. (Or send me some so I can do this) ;p

As delicious as this sounds, I recently discovered that I'm allergic to hazelnuts. This is a somewhat recent development that manifested around the time I was 25 -- along with being allergic to birch and alder pollen. Getting old is rough.

I'd gladly give you some, but I would guess that you might travel better than the berries would. Alaska isn't that much farther than Pennsylvania ;)  

nonxioro answered: Juice <3

Oh yeah! Something like a smoothie sounds pretty good.

celestial-fox answered: COMPOTE

Now you're speaking my language. Fairly simple and it can be mixed with alcohol :D

xiphoidprocess answered: oh my god. that’s amazing. I would just start eating them and call it heaven.

Straight to the point. Sounds about right :)

[jeanpolfus]

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